Faction NPC's

Faction NPC's

-Parrothead

 What better way is there to get people into the lore of [PLACEHOLDER] than by exploiting Minecraft's absurd amount of villager variations and adding custom textures for each faction?  Few things I would think.  These villagers will be a staple component of what each faction represents.

I think I clearly captured the spirit of the two factions here.

 Excuse the human in the middle, he's not part of either of the factions.

Tech Trees

Tech Trees

-Parrothead

 Tech trees are something you'd expect most RPG and MMO games to have.  Yes, we will also have tech trees in our game, but they will be much simpler.  Included below is a prototype for one of the many tech tree boards that will be around the cities.  

Players will be able to learn many of these trees, and won't necessarily be put into a box, limited to only certain trees as they progress.  You can progress in the tree, or just give up on it when you get it to a spot you like, and then start on another tree.

 This is a basic mage tree.  Notice how you have to level "Magic Wand 1" before you can either continue leveling magic wand, or branch off into one of the other two trees beside it.  If you really wanted to, you could just level Magic Wand 1 and then split off into another tree.  Doing this, however, negates you the bonuses listed by the signs at the bottom of the tree.

Introducing... [Placeholder]!

Introducing... [Placeholder]!

-Parrothead

So, what have we been doing?  Well, without exposing too much, we are creating a brand new mode of gameplay for Minecraft.  This mode requires ZERO client mods, and only requires the use of the texture pack that will autoinstall for you when you join our server.  Yes, you will be able to join without a single client mod and play a totally new Minecraft experience.

I (Parrothead) will be coding nearly everything.  FrostyPirate and his team will be doing most of the terrain, and Anton007007 will be doing the major bug testing.

I will go more into depth with explanations as time goes on, so I figured that I would post stuff that we finish or are currently working on.  I don't have a set time that I'll do this, but expect 1 blog post every day or so.

Mana Orbs

Mana orbs are those things that I posted yesterday in the screenshots.  They are ingame items that will provide your character with mana.  Your character's mana replaces the experience bar, and will always show how much mana you have.  Mana will be used for a plethora of things.

Where did the admins go?

 Where did the admins go?

-Parrothead

If you haven't noticed, for the past few days the admins and other regular faces haven't been on much.  We, however, have a very good reason for this, I swear!  I'm sure you find this fairly interesting.

I have been working with Frosty and other known members of the community in secret, developing something awesome.  What have we been working on?  Well, that's a secret at the moment.  It is for Minecraft, however, and it is going to be amazing.

I will reveal a lot more tomorrow (Friday, March 29), but for right now, I'll leave you with a few pictures:

When will the server be updated?

When 1.5 comes out.

http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/

Check daily.

CMNC Website 2.0

I have finally stopped being lazy and have uploaded the newer build of the site to the Internets.  No real performance upgrades (not that it needed any), but there are 2 big features, one you won't really care about.

First is that everything is better organized into one of the five (right now four) categories above.  Just scroll your mouse over the buttons to activate a menubar.

Second is the fact that I can now make pages that have the same layout without having to copy and paste lots of code.  That's mainly the reason for this site rewrite.

On another note, I cleaned up the code so I could read it.  Yay...!

If you want to use or just see the differences between the two sites, I have uploaded it to http://clancmnc.com/old.

On another note, here's Celldweller.